The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1949 Page: 4 of 4
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We should pledge ourselves here and now to
oppose this development as vigorously as we will
oppose the regimentation of labor through the
conscription of labor.
It should be the purpose of the American Fed-
eration of Labor to devote its energies to the
elimination of unwarranted discretionary au-
thority wherever and whenever it is transgres-
sing or replacing government by law—the law
enacted by the people’s duly elected representa-
tives for the benefit and protection of the people.
If we want to have good. sound Am-
erican citizens
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If we do not provide against them
end allow nature to take it course—
a. nomo of them say ft should—some
pieople data that we should let
business alone; and that these de-
pressions are good things. Of course,
that is unsound ecoaomlcs, it seems
to me. Wo don't need depressions. It
Labor News, Tort Worth, 6th
year.
These publication* ere res pos-
sible. Their editors stand high in
the councils of bona fide Labor
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employment as we are willing to pay
for.” Skolvol also argued that the
right to a job wae "a communistic
doctrine," and aald that he preferred
the old American slogan, "Root. hog;
or die." Senator Murray?
SENATOR MURRAY: Well. I think
that every American should revolt at
such philosophy as that. It seems to
me that that philosophy la passing
out in thia country. People are com-
ing to recognize that human rights
should be given precedence over mone-
tary rights or business rights. !•
seems seems to me that we have great depressions have a tremendous'
passed that age and these people who effect upon the lives of our people. >
talk that way are not talking sound upon children growing up in a per-
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Ch s eMap Accents • lev-
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end other Benkisq Services.
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We must insist that the regulation of our ac-
tivities as citizens and as workmen by duly en-
acted legislaton must be protected by the con-
stant and fearless expose of what is developing
under the insidious operation of government by
discretionary powers.
has to make a decision, and it has
to make it pretty soon. It baa to de-
cide whether to keep on with its
asinine hope that it can hoodwink
the voters as It used to do years ago,
or get in tune with the times and
offer the people of America a pro-
gram that deserves to be supported.
One thing is certain—if the Republi-
can Party continues to stand forth
as the party of greed and the party
that places shackles on free Ameri-
can labor to please the big campaign
contributors, it will continue to go
down to defeat.'*
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To All Advertisers
dared that "Corrective recessions
are necessary to reduce costs and
prices to a level which permit an eco-
nomy to function at its best advan-
tage." A few days later, the editors
of the Wall Street Journal wrete an
Editorial entitled "The Coming Re-
cession." and In ft they observed that,
“A mild depression that dispels the
boom psychology would be a welcome
guest." The Journal of Commerce de-
clared editorially. "Perhaps the great-
est lesson In our economic history
lies in the fact that after each set-
back. our economy has come back
stronger; the only thing to be afraid
of today la that we may he talked
Into giving up this pattern of pro-
gress.'
| All of this was pretty well sum-
marised by Dr. John L. Clark, a
member of the President's Council
Wright spoke on the motion. The
motion was seconded and carried.
On the second recommendation.
Secretary Hays read Article II under
the By Ijiwa stating that the Presi-
dent of the Council shall appoint a
Labor Day Committee the first meet-
ing after his installation. Brother
Hays further stated that an appoint-
ment of a committee at thia time
would be out or order.
Brother Bill Alton made a motion
that the election of a Labor Day Com-
mittee be made part of the regular
order of business In January. The
motion was seconded and carried.
The third recommendation of the
Executive Board, also the fourth, was
passed by a unanimous vote.
Secretary John Hays gave a fin-
ancial report. The report was received
and filed.
Under communications a copy of
the letters sent to Senators Connallv
and Johnson regarding House Bill
3906 was read. The answers to those
letters was received and filed.
Under Reports of Committees. Sis-
ter Irene Greathouse reported that
the Shop Card and labels Committee
were waiting on Information before
holding another meeting.
Under Election of Officers there
were two offices to fill. Brother Bill
Alton was elected Reading Clerk by
acclamation Brother Strickland was
elected Sargent at Arms by acclama-
tion.
lod of that kind when they eee their
parents suffering as a result of it—
Alt of employment. They are unable
o furnish them with food and edu-
■ate them. Why. It has a very serious
•ffect upon their mentality and their
health, and their philosophy and
their future Ilves. So that that is one
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eern upon the roughly 4 million who
are unemployed today.
N<>*. it so happens that soon after
the announcements referred to were
made. I chanced to be wandering
around the corridors outside the old
Supreme Court Chamber where the
Senate now sits, and bumped Into my
old and good friend. Senator James
Murray of Montana. Senator Murray
is one of those statesmen who be-
lieves that it to a good idea to repair
the noof when the weather Is good
so that it will keep the rain out in
bad weather. A few weeks ago. he
and 18 other United States Senators
introduced into the Senate a measure
designed to prevent the very thing
that the governors of two of our
great states complained about today:
unemployment of any kind, let alone
crttMh) unemployment This measure
is called. "The Economic Expansion
Act of IMt."
Now, just to see what happened
what philosophy blocks measures of
this kind, let us turn to Senator Mur-
ray and ask him if he believes that
the enactment of bls bill or one sim-
ilar to it is essential to the national
welfare.
SENATOR MURRAY: Well, I think
it is moat essential. I cannot under-
stand how the country would be al-
lowed to drift along as it Is without
taking steps immediately to meet
to have a larger degree of unemploy-
ment In order that there might be
at the factory gates each morning
a list of job hunters, because that
would make labor more eager and
more productive." Senator Murray?
SENATOR MURRAY: Well, there
are many who hold that belief of
course, but If you will analyte the
situation, you will find that those
who hold to that belief do not suf-
fer In any depression. They gain by
It. They do not realise that In these
depressions some one must suffer,
and It is the small, Independent busi-
ness men. Big corporations—mono-
pool of unemployed.'' He went on to pollen don't suffer. They continue
say that he believed unemployment to receive their huge salaries and
was necessary to maintain labor din- .bonuses and all. through the deprea-
clpline and to keep wages down. ’alon.
Then, there was Mr. John Skolvol I Through the last depression, for
of the chief of economists for the instance, every large corporation In
Chrysler Corporation, who recently [the United States even had money
told the Cleveland Welfare Corpora- during the depression while millions
lion that “We can have as much nn- |of business men were being ruined.
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fy that, seems to me to bo completely
erroneous and completely foreign to
our ideas In thia country.
MR. CROWLEY: You mentioned
small business men who are ruined.
Senator: you haven’t said a wori
about the American working man and
working woman who are ruined and
whose families are torn apart.
SENATOR MURRAY: Well, that is
true. We bad witnesses who appear-
ed before our committee who refer-
It red to that very situation—that these
That undoubtedly is
there Is a lot of other matter that de-
mands the attention of Congress. ■ -- - ■■ — -■-
However, there undoubtedly is involv- ****** ,hat1 happen would, be
ed the question of opposition to such
acts as the one proposed by Senator
Murray. If there were no opposition
to such proposals, there would be
question of their timely passage.
Therefore, let us run through some
of the more classic kinds of opposi-
tion, and get the Senator's reaction.
We might as well be acquainted
with the kind of things he Is up
against, so let's try this one first,
of these have been called from
Congressional Record.
There waa. for example, the busi-
leaa man who wrote that "private
ompetltive capital needs a floating |
apace in bogus labor publications,
year bqoka, time broke and various
schemes allegedly tor the benefit
of organised labor, the Texas La-
bor Press Association was organ-
ised nine years ago by heads of
the various journals and news-
papers recognized as representa-
tive of the Labor movement in
Texas.
Those bona fide Labor publics
tions are:
Dalian Craftsman, Dallas., tn its
JSth year of continuous publica-
tion in Dallas.
Austin Labor Journal, Austin.
2nd year.
Weikly Dispatch. San /ntonio,
diet year.
liouihweatern Railway Journal,
Fort Worth, 13rd year.
Union Bunner, Fort Worth. Mtb
year.
Farm and Labor Journal, Waco.
41st year.
labor Advocate, El Paso. 38tb
year.
Southwestern
Paso. 35th yeir.
Union Review. Galveston, 27th
year.
Labor Messenger, Houston, 25th
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help in this work
Sister Charlotte Morgan made a
motion that thU be referred to the
Executive Board The motion was
seconded and carried.
Bister Geneva Hraaocky thanked
Charlotte Morgan for the information
and help she had given regarding the
radio programs for Labor Day.
There being no further buslnexs
to come before the Council, the meet-
ing was adjourned
. Respectfully submitted.
JOHN W HAYS, Sec.-Treas.
By Charlotte Morgan.
List of Delegates Absent from Central
Labor Cenartl Meeting
L. 8. Miller, Bill Relnle. 8. T. White, began the stock market crash of 20
Amertcaatam at this time.
MR (ROWLEY: Then there was
Mr. Rufus Tucker, General Motor*
economist who. according to the Cons
gressional Record, stated. "The mor-
al obligation to keep any citizen from*
starving can be more adequately and
cheaply fulfilled in other ways than — ------— —- —- --
by providing jobs." And the New of the things we should try to avoid
York State Chamber of Commerce ap-
proved a report which maintained
that depressions are "the price we
pay for freedom." Senator Murray.
SENATOR MURRAY: That is an
outmoded doctrine in this country.
We got over that In the last depres
alon, it seems to me: and that we
have some now to realize that when
the danger of a depression approach-
es. we must meet it in a more civi-
lised manner -in a manner more con-
sistent with sound American econo-
mics. and that it what we are trying
to do here with this bill. When the
original bill was filed in 1916. it
wax attacked along the same lines
We had very lengtbey bearings on
that bill. Some witnesses came in and
claimed that it was taken out of the
Constitution of the Soviet Republic,
but it was passed by Congress because
it was sound. It had some of the best
American busineas men that we have
tn this country supporting It. and
some of the ablest economists; and
these people are now supporting
this measure. Some of the beet, lead-
ing business men in the United States
are coming to see that we must have
a program of this kind.
„ „ MR <'ROWLEY: Next, there was
these developing economic conditions the head of an advertising firm in
Dee Moinee. Iowa, who wrote an arti-
cle entitled, “We need those depres-
sIobb.”
One sentence In an editorial said,
"It is to be hoped that depressions
are never abolished because they
have many desirable features." This
B .. was paraphrased somewhat by Mr.
is not necessary to have them, and It I Winthrop Aldrich of the internatioii-
has a serious effect upon our coun-lal Chamber of Commerce,
try—upon the health of the people America's leading bankers, who de-
and upon the welfare of the whole
population.
MR. CROWLEY. Senator Murray.
I believe you told me a short while
ago. that In your opinion. It waa es-
sential that the current session of
Congress should take action on this;
what liklybood is there that the cur-
rent session of Congress will or can?
SENATOR MURRAY: Well. I doubt
very much if this bill could be acted 1
upon at the current Congress because '
there are so many other matters that
will have precedence that It would be
impossible to get this bill on the
floor at this session.
MR CROWLEY: Ho that It would
seem then that we are up against a
funny kind of a twofold proposition:
First that passage of the act at thia I
session is essential; and. second, that
its passage at this session la unlikely —— -- . .--------- - ——
that there is too much else that K«>«o®ie Advisers, when he nakL
taken precedence and again I quote. We have had
~ Mundoubtedly is true—that Presented to us repeatedly In our
conferences with representatives of
business the proposal that the best
Under Good and Welfare. Secretary
Hays introduced Mr. George A. Dyl-
sln, repraaentaUve of the Perk Dog
Food Company, who spoke on the
Master Eye Foundation. Ho explained
some of the work being carried on
and urged Council to endorse the work
publican Party? Why has it been
unable to win a national election since
and try to work out some plan to I’W The J* ^’“ma. The
*_ . . Republican Party has lout comis-
Itently because it has bad no program
to offer to the people. The party has
made itself the tool of the compara-
tively small number ot individuals
who control and direct the most
powerful corporations What these
greedy men want, the Republican
Party has leaped to perform. Instead
of serving the many, the Tafts and
like minded Republicans have pre-
lerred to serve the tycoons of in-
dustry.
"Well, It is a fact that this formula
used to work very nicely. It workel
in the 1880a. it worked in the ,1890s
and it worked, to be frank about It.
[ right up to the great depression which
' itowei* Atas* «<i»wil» awamesBrm* ntaah
Wm. T. E. terr. John Sorenson., years ago.
Claude Bummers. F. W. Harlow. *Yes, It used to be a successful for-
JI ramie Sparks, George Bryant. W. mu la. But no more. The American
^f. Gipson, Sam Harris. Valle Chan- i worker today doesn't vote the way
ney. D. <’. Rose. Barney Warrell. J. corporation owned newspapers advise
E. Henderson. M S. Bohon, Bill Cox. him to vote. The Republican Party
Edward M. Brown, C. Lewis Tate.
Bertie Hansen. Hugh McGinn. P T.
McNair. H. E. Tinsley, Erwin Hend-
rix. Allen Ripley, i^ee Kenai, D. W.
Reynolds. Fred R. Wilson. E. N.
Rhodes, Simon P, Oster. L E. Mitchell.
S. E. Joaaa. Clift Tullis. Wallace C.
Reilly, Edgar Daniela. Ruth Black-
well. Velma MdCwier, Leia Bartlett.
Cleo Hawkins, Ted Tedford. Tom
Drennan. C. W. Cutler, R. B. Jones,
M. Chance, T. D. Easley. Thos. Hard-
wick. S. G. Smith. Harvey Hill. D.
P. Holt. Bill Harris. Maarene Davis.
M. P. Ferguson, O. C. Self, Bruce
Day, R. R. Mshaney. Zells Pearl
Wood. Birdie Wells. O R. Billings.
Amelia Mlllpr, F L Archer. L K
Stafford, Don Vestal. J. C. Stewart.
Rudolph Brunner F. C. Hanna. C.
H Flowers, M T Booker, W. C Cam-
eron.
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of our resources and capabilities to the winning
of the peace. Let us now solemnly pledge our-
selves, while so doing, to use every energy we
possess to protect the wage-earners of our coun-
try from these twin evils—compulsory control
of labor by the government through discretion-
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